Finally some good news from the Middle East! From the Blaze: New Israeli ‘Tea Party’ Promoting Free Market Ideas in Uncharted Territory
 
Just formed last summer, The Israeli Freedom Movement is a “non-partisan activist movement, working towards a fundamental cultural shift in Israel by spreading the ideas of freedom among the Israeli public.”
 
Boaz Arad is one of the fledgling group’s founders:

“We view ourselves as allies, friends, ideological partners with the American Tea Party’s struggle. We view the American Tea Party movement as a noble movement that for the first time in the past 100 years offers an alternative to the deterioration of the world’s largest, freest superpower in the direction of socialism and statism.”
 

“The government should do less. Reduce the regulation, reduce the barriers, reduce the difficulties that Israelis experience in order to establish a business.”
 

“Contrary to the U.S. that needs to rediscover again its values that have been trampled, Israel needs to recognize them, to craft a constitution and advance the principles of freedom and the free market. It should be noted Israel is a small country, though what happens here has big global ramifications. Therefore, a thriving freedom movement is especially important. Additionally, the U.S. is the last big stronghold of freedom in the world, and without it, we and the free world are lost.”

 
Yep – sounds like the Tea Party to me!
 
FreedomWorks went to Israel last August to establish a relationship with members of the movement and share strategies:
 

 
My favorite quote is from a woman who suggests that a basic goal of the new group should be to convince people to take responsibility for their own actions; “because socialism educates people to wait until someone else will do for them.” Certainly one of the biggest challenges we face here too!
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You can follow the Israeli Freedom Movement on Facebook – but it’ll help if you can read Hebrew